Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-15

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the following:
DIR. jackson, Our Home on the Hillside, New
York.
There Is one clerk in the office who remem-
bers that the sanitarium at Dansville, N. Y,
Is sometimes called sour Home on the Hill
side" and there DR.. jackson is found.
Sometimes letter writers make very strange
slips. A letter is addressed to-:
MI. Matthew Brown, Niagara, Pratt Co., Kansas.
As there is no such place as Niagara in Kan
sas. the letter is sent to Saratoga, Pratt coun-
ty, with a special request to the postmaster at
that place for information as to where mail
addressed niagara" should be sent. Matthew
Brown lives in Saratoga, the postmaster
knows him, the letter is delivered, and the
dead letter office in doe time notified of tho
fact.
The ingenuity of the employees is sometimes
taxed to the utmost, as in this letter:
Mrs. Ellen Clark, care Ida NJ. Jones, Brunswick.
AS there is no state given, this letter soon
HRds its way to the dead letter Office. As the
words Scare Ida NJ. Jones' are not directly
under the principal address, it is taken for
granted that they refer to some sailing vessel,
and that it was sent from New York where it
was posttnarked, to some port on the Allan
tic coast. The only Brunswick that can be
found on the coast is in Georgia. The letter
is sent there, and Mrs. Ellen Clark receives it.
letter addressed:
Miss Annie Glennon, 413 st. Mary's street, New
York City,
Can find neither street nor person in the
metropolis. There is no such street in New
York state, nor indeed, in any city in the
Union except San Antonio, Tex. There are
plenty of streets named st. Mary, but none
named st. Mary's. The letter is sent to San
Antonio, and delivered to Miss Glennon, at
Alb st. Mary's street.
A letter was addressed to
Miss M. E. Adams, care Drexel, Morgan & Co,
London, England.
Miss Adams having left London, this was
forwarded by-Drexel, Morgan & Co. to her
supposed address in New York city, III
North Eighth street. There being no North
Eighth street in New York city, it was sent
to the dead letter Office. As Eighth street,
in Philadelphia runs north and south, the
letter was sent there, and Miss Adams was
found at III.
Very often letters find their proper destina-
ton purely by accident. For instance, one
came to the office a short time ago addressed:
Miss Minnie B. Hannighan, LAUGHS Hotel, N. Y.
There happened to be a clerk in the office
hote, ut Tnng Rr,nah n e = was q iauehs
iatter fonnd Mics aana;a !. - anu enere 'he
par,.ns t,,a - $50.
co,,nectad ,a;th : latta. aIsIsna. Tue KING Is
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nv .ne a.uai:lns IS eyioentiy that OF a
ps,soa :. cullu,e; an expert IN the dead
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sm;th 80 AiaMs"s.;s semo - MIS- Maggie
- ia "nonh lhe Wrlter
1t seems strange that the postmaster at De-
catlr,. Ga, should not have known where to
send a letter addressed
Miss II. Z. Alexander, Z, v.
But he did not, and it came to the dead let
ter Office. The, ready witted clerk into whose
haids ~ iell knew, what the postmaster did
not, That L. ". stood for en- vile. The letter
was returned to Decatur, and delivered to the
addressed.
often letters are received where the writer
has forgotten to complete the address. Here